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Wrecks
The best place to read about Guernsey's wrecks is probably The Shipwreck Museum at Fort Grey (Cup and Saucer). Here you will be able to soak up the atmosphere of Fort Grey itself and also learn a huge amount about the many hundreds of wrecks that have occurred on our rocky shores.
The best place to read about Guernsey's wrecks is probably The Shipwreck Museum at Fort Grey (Cup and Saucer). Here you will be able to soak up the atmosphere of Fort Grey itself and also learn a huge amount about the many hundreds of wrecks that have occurred on our rocky shores.
Author Ray Dafter published an excellent book about Guernsey Wrecks in 2001, which lists over 800 wrecks around Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. You can find out more from this site:- www.matfieldbooks.com
Ray writes: It all started with an innocent question during a holiday visit to the Fort Grey Shipwreck Museum in Guernsey. "Do you have a reference book on Guernsey shipwrecks?" I asked the always helpful staff. "No - we are always getting inquiries," was the reply. "Perhaps someone ought to write one." That was enough, and was the start of a research project that has taken many years and repeated visits to Guernsey and its neighbouring islands.
Perhaps the most famous of wrecks and the greatest disaster to befall a Channel Island passenger steamship occurred on 30th March 1899 when the London & SWR steamer Stella sank after striking Black Rock on the Casquets in thick fog with the loss of about 100 lives. The shock of the tragedy was felt far and wide. However, the disaster did bring to an end racing between ships of rival companies. It also prompted the establishment of a joint service on the Channel Island routes.
This is a post card impression of the L&SWR passenger steamer Stella sinking on the Casquets in 1899.
( Guernsey Museum & Galleries)
The sinking of the passenger steamer Stella , as depicted by artist Robert John Wolfenden in 1996.
( Guernsey Museum & Galleries)
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